Comments on: At Simpsons Chop House https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/18/at-simpsons-chop-house-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:31:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Margarita https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/18/at-simpsons-chop-house-x/#comment-1322196 Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:31:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177853#comment-1322196 Nice to hear about the staff.

The grill in the window has to go!

]]> By: David https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/18/at-simpsons-chop-house-x/#comment-1321897 Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:28:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177853#comment-1321897 I immediately went to their website upon reading this article, assuming the fare would be at banker’s prices as well. I was shocked to see that a Full English Breakfast is a mere £9.50! Plain and mediocre restaurants where I live (Newfoundland) charge more than that for a full-on breakfast scoff. I’ll most certainly be stopping by for a feed next time I’m in London; the 250 years of historic ambience will be a lovely freebie on the house!

]]> By: Chris Connor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/18/at-simpsons-chop-house-x/#comment-1321765 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:02:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177853#comment-1321765 I still recall the taste of the wonderful braised onions alongside the mixed grill. Great place, full of character which is, sadly, lacking in the more recent establishments. Lovely story.

]]> By: Debra Matheney https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/18/at-simpsons-chop-house-x/#comment-1321742 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:13:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177853#comment-1321742 Love the old style restaurants. Musso and Franks in Hollywood and the Tadish Grill in San Francisco are Californian examples, albeit not as old as Simpsons. Musso has elderly wait staff who have worked there fro 30-40 years. Sadly, a few have recently dies and 2 received long obituaries in the Los Angeles Times. Both feature lots of wood and old fashioned food. Wish I could dine at Simpsons. Glad to see traditions continuing.

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/18/at-simpsons-chop-house-x/#comment-1321717 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:44:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177853#comment-1321717 A lovely story burnished like those brass rails.
I wish I could drop in for lunch in two hours–somehow, being in Toronto, I doubt I could keep the reservation.
One day…

]]> By: Judith Haxton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/18/at-simpsons-chop-house-x/#comment-1321713 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:55:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177853#comment-1321713 What did you have to eat ? I’d love to know !!!
Judy

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/18/at-simpsons-chop-house-x/#comment-1321706 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:55:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177853#comment-1321706 Thank you GA for a wonderful insight into the world of Simpsons Chop House. One of those you might have met there in the past would have been my relative, Frederick Francis Greenwood, a friend of both Thackeray (The Great Thack) and Dickens, both of whom used to visit him in his home, and who was for a short time a journalist and then the editor of the Cornhill Magazine, before becoming the first editor of the Pall Mall Gazette in 1865. Frederick had persuaded George Smith, the owner of the Cornhill magazine to bring out a new magazine to be published later in the day. He made a great success of the PMG and his skill as a journalist enabled him to influence all the leading politicians of the day and he made sure that they did not step out of line and that they worked for the good of the country. He is on record as saying that it is the first duty of every journalist to always tell the truth. How we need him today. At his death in 1909 the Times described him thus: ‘He used his great qualities of mind and judgement with a single eye to the Public Good.’ This is the man that you might have met GA.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/18/at-simpsons-chop-house-x/#comment-1321639 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 07:54:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177853#comment-1321639 Glad to see such places still exist! Valerie

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